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Extra, Extra: Good Reads from Winter Break
Every weekday’s end, Extra, Extra collects just about everything you ought to care about or ought not miss.
Top: the building at Yonge and Gould as it appeared in 1974; photo courtesy of Tanja Tiziana. Bottom: the building as it is today, in the aftermath of this morning’s fire; photo by Christopher Drost/Torontoist.
- Slate revisits the history of the Spadina Expressway, as part of its series on unbuilt highways.
- New find: Vanishing Point, a blog devoted to “water underground,” with some great articles about Toronto’s hidden depths.
- Elsewhere in the world, the city of Copenhagen has created an interactive “idea map,” to allow residents to make requests for things like new benches, parks, trash clean up, and whatever else they are craving.
- “Sell it and buy a vehicle that’s compatible with city life.” Paris is thinking of putting limits on SUVs.
- Older but just discovered: an explanation of why the east side of cities are often poorer.
- And finally, the New York Times has a great feature on how cities work.
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